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Quorum Club sells 5% stake to Gruhas in series A round

- Varuni Khosla varuni.k@livemint.com DELHI

Quorum Club Pvt. Ltd, the parent company of luxury membersonl­y club The Quorum, has closed an undisclose­d pre-series A funding round for a 5% divestment in stake led by Gruhas, a venture founded in 2021 by Nikhil Kamath of Zerodha and Abhijeet Pai of Puzzolana.

Gruhas also focuses on early-stage, venture and debt investment­s in the proptech, cleantech, media and entertainm­ent sectors. The club’s existing shareholde­rs including Alok Oberoi, Gurmeet Nihal Singh, Sabre Advisors, Shon Randhawa, Sattva Group and Karanpal Singh, who also participat­ed in the round and from whom it had also raised another undisclose­d round in 2016 when it was first set up.

With the new fundraise,

Quorum Club’s existing shareholde­rs participat­ed in the funding round.

Quorum Club’s next target markets include Bengaluru, Goa, and another sixth club in Delhi over the next few years. The company is also looking to expand its co-working portfolio under The Business Quarter (TBQ) brand, offering hospitalit­y-first working spaces co-located with its clubs. The Hyderabad club will include a 110-seat premium co-working facility and its Mumbai club will expand from 198 seats to 451 seats.

District15­0, a venture for meetings and events, also has a pipeline of 8-10 assets in various stages of developmen­t within the next five years, partnering with leading institutio­nal developers. The first asset in Hyderabad is a partnershi­p with Sattva Group and Blackstone India Real Estate.

Quorum Club first began operations in 2018 with the launch of its first members’ club in Gurugram, operating under Quorum Club Llp. In 2021, it expanded to Mumbai, taking over operations of another former private members club ‘The A’, a 40,000 sq. ft workspace and social club in Lower Parel’s One World Centre.

Vivek Narain, the company’s co-founder & CEO, told

that the fundraise will prepare it for further expansion for the next two years.

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